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But that climatic handicap doesn’t dampen Young’s enthusiasm, nor his curiosity over what his hybrid plants will look like when mature

 B&J chocolate chip cookie dough (and chocolate brownie) keep this girl happy. Whack on a #Starbucks, and Tay-Tay is all set.

What’s striking here is that the idea of breeding cotton for edible cottonseed wasn’t some gee whiz inspiration of the biotech era; this is a project going back 70 years. It’s always worth noting that while our current technologies are producing novel solutions, the problems have been with us for a long time. We’ve been producing cotton with cottonseed packed with fat and protein that we just couldn’t fully utilize going back 7,000 years ago to the Kachi Plain of Balochistan, Pakistan, in the sixth millennium BC.

Think twice before tossing the rind of a watermelon. The crunchy layer makes for a great pickling ingredient to pair alongside barbecue or other lunchtime eats. (Grace Dickinson/Philadelphia Inquirer)

Some competitors have boosted revenue by adding haunted houses, hayrides, and corn mazes to their farms, but the Mullers have eschewed such agritourism, describing themselves as purists.

Denver David Kaminer was the kind of kid who regularly made breakfast in bed for his parents, so it’s no surprise that, years later, the Pittsburgh-raised teen attended culinary school. After an externship at the Broadmoor, Kaminer traded Pennsylvania for Colorado, working in restaurants from Boulder to Golden to Colorado Springs; eventually he settled on baking, learning the tricks of professional bread making by working with the masters at Udi’s Artisan Bakery (now Izzio Artisan Bakery). Today Kaminer is drawing on his pedigree to craft superb naturally leavened loaves, using organic ingredients and freshly milled grains, from his home hearth in northwest Denver. “I started the bakery to make the products I want to eat,” Kaminer says. We want to wake up to his crackle-crusted, whole-grain breads—especially the flavor-packed, sunflower-seed-studded dark German rye—too.How To Buy: Preorder loaves ($4 to $7) from Raleigh Street Bakery online with at least two days’ notice; Monday pickups are at Call to Arms Brewing Company, and Friday pickups are at Kaminer’s home bakery. From June through October, you can also snag preordered loaves at Lafayette’s Isabelle Farm on Thursdays and find a Raleigh Street Bakery stall at the Union Station Farmers Market on Saturdays. 5245 Raleigh St., 303-709-1020

But the couple typically hedges their bets with other giant vegetables, including tomatoes, carrots and exotic gourds.

They are determined to stop “Farmer John,” even if it means putting him — and his pumpkin patch — out of business.

“Watermelon’s health benefits extend well beyond its juicy flesh,” said Theresa Shank, a registered dietitian. “The seeds offer almost the same nutrient density of other more common seeds, like pumpkin and sunflower, and the rind is among the richest edible sources of L-citrulline, an amino acid that has been studied extensively in its relation to heart health.”

Carrots are a food that you might always have in your fridge, so this Curried Carrots With Pistachios recipe by Wendy Irene is quite convenient. Plus with this dish you get the added health benefits of spices, nuts and herbs.

The growth in their prevalence – and that of sunflower selfie snaps – is largely due to their ballooning use for oil. Over the last 60 years, changes to our diets and industrial needs mean the area of global oil crop production has more than doubled. Four oil crops consume most of this land: oil palm, soya, rape and sunflower.

Not long after, in the spring of 2015, VanHeulen literally was moving on up — from the basement kitchens to the penthouse restaurant, 27 floors up in the sky. VanHeulen’s stellar cooking led to his promotion to sous chef, then to chef de cuisine after a brutal audition against ambitious chefs from New York City and Chicago who hungered for AAA Four Diamond mark of distinction prestige.